H&H asks: Is Katie Price good for equestrian sport?

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Richard Davison, triple Olympian and H&H columnist

“I don’t think everybody is able to identify with Katie Price, especially not traditional dressage women, but commercially she is very good for the sport, attracting people that are outside it. At HOYS, an usher who had worked at the NEC for 30 years said to me: ‘I thought dressage was what Zara Phillips did before that jumping thing — this is the best thing I’ve ever seen here.’”